Ask HN: Will Bitcoin ever go mainstream?
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Recently I have been looking at the numbers and wondering if we are kidding ourselves.
Consumer sales transaction numbers are trivial It fails as a remittance vehicle due to the buy/sell delta Chinese moving money offshore 58% inflate transactions/price Bitcoin playing mother hen to alt-coin falsley aids price You'd never buy if calc replenishment costs Mining it's wasteful and inefficient
My prediction is Bitcoin will be a casualty of showing the way but not having the legs to deliver. In part because of flaws in its design and in part because open-source projects lack direction.
Positively, I'm certain cryptos are here to stay and we will see the currency of the future emerge in the next year or two.
One last thought, it's money going into Bitcoin investment or rather crypto - infrastructure?
Consumer sales transaction numbers are trivial It fails as a remittance vehicle due to the buy/sell delta Chinese moving money offshore 58% inflate transactions/price Bitcoin playing mother hen to alt-coin falsley aids price You'd never buy if calc replenishment costs Mining it's wasteful and inefficient
My prediction is Bitcoin will be a casualty of showing the way but not having the legs to deliver. In part because of flaws in its design and in part because open-source projects lack direction.
Positively, I'm certain cryptos are here to stay and we will see the currency of the future emerge in the next year or two.
One last thought, it's money going into Bitcoin investment or rather crypto - infrastructure?
This has me worried about the future of Bitcoin. I think Bitcoin and its derivatives have a lot of potential as a future currency but the way that people treat it now worries me. For Bitcoin to have a future it needs to be used by people in the same way that we dollars and euros day to day. People need to start buying more things with Bitcoin, get paid with Bitcoin, and keep savings and money market accounts in Bitcoin. We need to start "thinking" in Bitcoin like we think in dollars. But, the high changes in price scare adoption of Bitcoin. Why would I buy a laptop for 2 BTC when tomorrow that laptop could only cost 1.5 BTC because the value of BTC changed over night?
What is your opinion on the Bitcoin's future as a true currency? Is my concern valid or will the power of the technology trump the speculators in the long run? Can anyone point me to resources that go beyond the "speculator mentality" that has started to plague BT and various "Bitcoin evangelist" magazines?